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WILLIAM F. GOULD, OF DES MOINES, IOWA, ASSIGNOR OF ONE-HALF TO WEBSTER BISHOP, OF NEW YORK, N. Y.

TIE-PLATE.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 594,248, dated November 23, 1897. Application filed June 15,1896. Serial No. 595,714. (No model.)

To etZZ whom it may concern.-

Be it known that LWILLIAM F. GOULD, of Des Moines, county of Polk, and State of Iowa, have invented an Improved Railway Tie Plate, of which the following is a specification.

This invention relates to tie-plates; and its object is to provide an improved invertible tie-plate adapted to be interposed between the track-rails and ties; and the invention consists in an invertible tie-plate constructed substantially as hereinafter more fully described.

In the accompanying drawings, Figure 1 is a perspective view of a section'of a railwayrail and cross-tie with my invention applied thereto. Fig. 2 is a perspective view of the tie-plate. Figs. 3 to 6 are detail perspective views of other embodiments of the invention.

The tie-plate A is provided upon its opposite faces with one or more ribs or projections 2, so located and arranged that the rib or ribs on'either side may serve either as a bearing for the outer edge of the base of the rail or may enter the upper face of the cross-tie 3, according to which side is uppermost. Arranged in proper relation to the ribor ribs are one or more openings 4, through which the spikes 5 may be driven, and these are so located and arranged that when the tie-plate is inverted the hole or holes will not coincide with the holes made by the spikes previous to the inversion of the plate, so that the spikes will enter solid portions of the tie.

The invertible tie-plate may be in various forms and shapes, some of which are illustrated in the various figures, and the rib or ribs may be of various forms and shapes, the essential feature being that they are so arranged on the opposite sides of the plate that they will alternately form a bearing for the edge of the rail and enter the top of the tie to aid in holding the plate in position. Thus in Fig. 2 the ribs 2 are continuous across the tie-plate. In Fig. 3 they are broken at a point near their center, while in Fig. 5 they are shorter than the width of the plate, and when less than the Width of the cross-tie their ends will bear upon the ends of recesses in the tie and serve to prevent lateral movement with relation to the tie.

The various uses and advantages of this construction are apparent to those skilled in the art and need not be recited, and it will be perceived that my improvement consists in an invertible tie-plate having ribsor projections on its opposite faces adapted either to engage the edge of the flange of the rail or a recess in the tie, according to its position, and perforated for the reception of spikes.

-What I claim is 1. A flat-faced invertible tie-plate having a rib or projection on one surface near one edge adapted to engage a railway-tie and the edge of the flange of a rail, and a spike-opening adjacent the said projection, and a corresponding rib or projection and perforation on the opposite side of the plate near the other edge, substantially as shown and described.

2. An invertible tie-plate having a rib or projection upon its opposite faces adapted to engage the flange of the rail or to enter a recess in the tie according to its position and provided with spike openings, the spikeopenings being in such relation to the ribs as to permit the heads of the spikes to overlie and engage the said flange, substantially as described.

3. An invertible tie-plate having counterpart top and bottom faces and ribs and perforated so that the perforations will not coin cide with previous spike-openings in the tie when the plate is inverted, substantially as described.

WILLIAM F. GOULD.

Witnesses:

WILLIS S. HUFFORD, HARRY I-lULsIzER. 

